with the energy crises in the US, especially
in California, costs have doubled and tripled
for gas and electric services...
part of the logic of the new administration's
$1.3 Trillion tax cut, from President Bush's
paraphrased tongue, is 'to give the people back
their hard-earned money so that they can pay for
things such as their increased energy bills, and
keep the economy on track', or something close to
that statement, with the actual words energy and
bills and tax break in the quote.
from a partisan viewpoint, but purely from a public/
private perspective, this could be considered one of
the biggest private bailouts in the United States.
the taxpayer's money is being given back by the
government to pay for a failed energy system, and
in effect is subsidizing this failure by giving
citizens some of their tax money back to pay the
private companies whom are benefiting from the
failures of the privatized (public) utilities
and their privatized (public) services.
$1.3 Trillion Tax Cut = Energy Bailout.
the taxpayer gets nothing, they actually lose
all their extra money to the power and energy
companies. the 'tax cut' is the cut of the
money that the energy companies are getting
from the public tax base, fueled by an energy
policy promoted by energy companies whom are
behind the new administration, most notably
Enron Corporation, and Halliburton Oil.
to optimize the free market and trickle-down
economics of this public-private transaction,
the government could just take out 'we the
(middle) people' from the equation, and just
cut a government check for 1.3 Trillion dollars
for the subsidizing the energy/power brokers,
while at the same time minimizing all of the
unnecessary processing of information, and
the additional waste of monetary resources
it requires, such as writing checks never
meant for the majority of citizens bank
accounts.
what will the effects be when the US Federal
Surplus, given back to consumers, does not
go back into the mainstream economy, but into
the coffers of the energy companies?
this is but one perspective of a very complex
situation, and while these events may just be
coincidental, in terms of conscious intention
by the parties involved, the end-game remains
the same, as the money ends up in the hands
of those whom control the sources of power,
economic, social, and political.
the best and only strategy in a game like this
is to change the rules. it is the only way to
play fair, and it is the only way to win back
what has been lost. one can play by the pre-
established rules and have faith in incremental
change, but that only refines the bureaucracy
of thought and (in)action that are in place.
it is time to work together, under no-one and
every-one, as common people. the new dialectic,
if there is one, is paradox. it is realized in
something that is both true and false at the same
time, such as the commentary above. the synthesis
is not some-thing new in-itself, it-is its-self.
possibility, potential, until truth is decided
upon. but what level, truth? how detailed need
it be? expert level, or could it be at the most
general level too, where 'we', common people,
can find some-thing shared that we believe is
common, and factual, and true, however vague.
as the recent net.art and SI talks demonstrate,
at least from one vantage, there can be some
very interesting discussion/discourse, but is
there every any more general synthesis beyond
the breaking down of ideas? is there ever a
building-up of ideas? a super-structure to go
along with the sub-structure? the trap of both
language and logic, and the looping of ideas.
what program can crash the thought-feeling
processors and reboot our brains with a new
OS, a paradigmatic new Operating Situation based
upon new software and new logic chipsets for
processing sensory and language data/thought?
the power of language is the source of change.
what is the architecture of this new language?
paradoxical logic: things are both true and false
language as code: open-source programming of ideas
public identity: humanity as a group of individuals
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